File system /var is fulll

[Edwin Ruiz_2]

Hi..

My /var file system is full.. i know that the /var/spool mqueue has all space used... can i erase all files on that directory?

Something is afected if i erase yhat files?

[Jerome Henry · Accepted solution]

You can delete them ! But know that you are deleting mail queue...
Look here for type of files you'll find :
http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/files/aixfiles/mqueue.htm

J

[Steven E. Protter]

mailq

This will show lots of email that is waiting to get off your machine.

If you care about the mail, you don't want to delete it.

rm -f /var/spool/mqueue/*

Will clear the mail.

It will give you space on /var

Next you need to look at your mail setup and figure out why mail can't get off the box.

/etc/resolv.conf

Valid DNS servers

sendmail.cf

Is DS relay set and not working?

sendmail -v -d8 -d38 someone@aol.com
type some text

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will get you trace diagnostics so this does not happen again.

SEP

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

Sendmail maintains its mail related files in /var/spool/mqueue/*. Don't delete these files because these are the mails which are in queue.
"mailq" command prints a summary of the mail messages.

Regards,
Sergejs

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Just to recover some space to the get the system up again have a look at /var/log . At least on my system this contains archived message and login files (look for .gz files) that at least can be moved off the disk without problems (depending on your needs you might also dispose of them all together). Else I agree you do need to check your mail setup.

Greetings, Martin

[Edwin Ruiz_2]

Ok! thanks...Now i have other situation

Using df -k command i see var until 100% used.. but whn i use du -k on /var i have only 82 MB used.. /var/size is 2 GB.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hello Edwin,

did you execute the du on /var as root? Files you are not allowed to read will not be reported...

Greetings, Martin

[Jerome Henry]

Hi Edwin,

The result is normal :
"If an argument is the absolute file name of a disk device node containing a mounted filesystem, df shows the space available on that filesystem rather than on the filesystem containing the device node (which is always the root filesystem). " (from man df).
In other words, umount /var and df shoudl give you proper result. DU result is the right one.
BTW, why -k argument, if you don't precise block size ?
I usually use df -h or du -h (or -H).

j